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TEUTIONS CONFIDENT OF ISSUE; Times Correspondent, High Up in Air, Views Entire 25-Mile Battle Field. LIKE A HUGE CHECKERBOARD Exploding Shells Seem to be Smoke Flowers That Bloom and Fade in a Moment. GUNS BOOM IN CONCERT British Artillery the Basso Profundo, While French Weapons Produce Staccato Tones.

By CYRIL BROWN. STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF THE NEW YORK TIMES.SPECIAL CABLE TO THE NEW YORK TIMES.AUG. 18, 1916

ARMY CORPS HEADQCARTER ON THE SOMME, Aug. 12. (via Berlin and The Hague, Aug. 16.) -- I have had the opportunity of viewing the whole twenty-five-mile Somme front from a high vantage point, enabling me to round out my impression of the Somme battle by seeing what I had only heard on the tree-top artillery observation post. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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A version of this archives appears in print on August 18, 1916, on Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: TEUTIONS CONFIDENT OF ISSUE; Times Correspondent, High Up in Air, Views Entire 25-Mile Battle Field. LIKE A HUGE CHECKERBOARD Exploding Shells Seem to be Smoke Flowers That Bloom and Fade in a Moment. GUNS BOOM IN CONCERT British Artillery the Basso Profundo, While French Weapons Produce Staccato Tones. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe